In the summer of 1629, the legal records of Berwickshire capture the emergence of a case against Jonet Wallace, a resident of the market town of Duns. On the 15th of July, 1629, Jonet was formally processed within the judicial system under the reference C/LA/3020. This administrative milestone initiated a process that would soon see her brought before the local authorities to answer for allegations of witchcraft, a matter of significant social and legal gravity in the early modern period.
Following the initial registration of the case, the proceedings moved toward a formal hearing under the designation T/LA/1282. As the judicial machinery of the time began to turn in Duns, Jonet found herself at the centre of an investigation that would subject her to the rigorous scrutiny of the Scottish criminal courts. While the archival fragments preserve the cold precision of these court references, they underscore the vulnerability of individuals like Jonet when caught in the complex web of ecclesiastical and secular justice that characterized the era.